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mile in width, and is a ver}^ rich, alluvial soil. Growth, short leaf pine, 

 oak, ash, hickory, walnut, poplar ; a considerable variety of native grasses 

 afford good summer pastures, both on the uplands and in the bottoms, 

 and cane for winter pasturage is abundant. Crops from one-third to one 

 bale cotton, seven bushels to fifteen bushels corn on uplands, and twenty 

 bushels to sixty bushels on bottoms, twenty bushels to fifty bushels oats, 

 eight bushels to twenty-five bushels wheat per acre. One-fourth of the 

 land for sale at six dollars to twelve dollars an acre ; one-half for rent for 

 two to two and one-half bales of cotton for a one-horse farm of thirty 

 acres or more. There is a mill-dam across Saluda river. Little attention 

 is paid to stock. Field labor is paid fifty cents a day ; about one-sixth 

 of it is performed by whites. Locality healthy. Traces of gold are found. 

 ,MayMnton Toivnship (E. D. Ill): Bottoms level, uplands rolling, hilly 

 and broken near the water courses. Soil, red clay and gray, sandy loam, 

 underlaid by red and snuff-colored clay ; depth of soil, three inches to 

 five inches ; below the subsoil, granite, gneiss, hornblende and traprocks 

 occur. Growth, hickory, several varieties of oaks, short leaf pine, cedar, 

 walnut, dogwood, ash, poplar ; cane abundant in the bottoms. Crops, 

 from four hundred pounds to twenty-nine hundred pounds seed cotton, 

 from five bushels to one hundred bushels corn, from six bushels to forty 

 bushels wheat, from twenty bushels to one hundred bushels oats an acre ; 

 clover has given four tons per acre. All for rent for from one hundred 

 pounds to three hundred pounds seed cotton per acre ; not much land 

 for sale ; price seven dollars to fifteen dollars per acre. There is excellent 

 granite for building. Broad river is six hundred yards wide ; depth, in 

 shoals, four feet ; velocity, in shoals, estimated at thirty miles an hour ; 

 fall, at Lyles ford, eighteen feet in a mile. Ennoree river eighty yards 

 wide, six feet deep ; velocity, six miles in an hour. Wages of field labor 

 fifty cents a day ; one-fourth performed by whites. Very healthy. 



Spartanburg County. 



Cowpens Township {E. D. 145): Rolling. Soil, coarse, gray, sandy" 

 loam, with subsoil of red clay, underlaid by mica slate. Growth, white 

 and post oak, hickory and pine. Bottom lands very fertile. Gold is 

 found, and there are several fine water powers on Pacolet river, notably 

 at Clifton cotton factory. One-half of the labor is performed by whites. 



Glenn Springs Township {E. D. 143) : Elevated, level. A dark gray, 

 sandy soil, eight inches to ten inches to subsoil of red clay. Growth, oak, 

 hickory, pine. Crops, six hundred pounds seed cotton, eight bushels to 

 ten bushels corn, eight bushels to ten bushels wheat, twenty bushels to 

 forty bushels oats per acre. Land sells from five dollars to twenty dollars 



